Mistaken for a revered countess when she stumbles into Dead End, Wyoming, con artist Ophelia Kendrake believes she can strike it rich in the role, until she meets the town's virile and reluctant mayor, Tyler.
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New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander was an award winning television reporter until she discovered fiction was much more fun than real life. She turned to writing full time and is still shocked it worked out.
Since the publication of her first book in 1995, she has written twenty-four full length novels and six novellas. The Perfect Wife--originally published in 1996 and reissued in March 2008--hit #1 on the New York Times list. Sixteen of her books are bestsellers hitting the New York Times, USA Today and/or Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. With books translated into a dozen different languages she has readers around the world and has twice been nominated for Romance's Writers of America prestigious RITA award. In 2009 she was given a Career Achievement Award from RT Bookclub and was named Historical Storyteller of the year in 2003. In 2008 she was the keynote speaker for the Romance Writers of American annual conference in San Francisco. Victoria credits much of her writing success to her experiences as a reporter.
Her years as a broadcast journalist were spent in two radically different areas of the country: Nebraska and West Virginia. In West Virginia, she covered both natural and manmade disasters. She was on the scene when a power plant construction accident in a small town left 52 men dead. She once spent the night on a mountain waiting to learn of the fate of coal miners trapped in a mine collapse. Victoria was producing a newscast when her husband (who worked at the same television station) and several other journalists were held hostage by a disturbed Vietnam veteran. In Nebraska, she reported on the farm crisis and watched people lose land that had been in their families for generations. She covered the story that was the basis of the movie BOYS DON'T CRY and once acted as the link between police and a gunman who had barricaded himself in his home. Her investigative work exposed the trucking of New York City garbage to a small town dump in rural Nebraska.
During her journalism career, Victoria covered every president from Ford to Clinton. She knows firsthand what it feels like to be surrounded by rising floodwaters and inside a burning building. She's interviewed movie stars including Kevin Costner, ridden an elephant and flown in a governor's helicopter. She's covered a national political convention and Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Denver as well as small town festivals celebrating everything from walnuts to Glen Miller. Her work was honored by numerous organizations including the Associated Press who called a feature about a firefighter's school "story telling genius". It was the encouragement she needed to turn from news to fiction. She's never looked back.
Victoria is a former president of the Omaha Press Club and in 2009 was named an OPC Face on the Barroom Floor. A caricature portrait of her joined previous faces including presidents, sports figures and politicians in a tradition that began in 1971.
Victoria claims her love of romance and journalism is to due to the influence of her favorite comic book character: Lois Lane, a terrific reporter and a great heroine who pursued Superman with an unwavering determination. And why not? He was extremely well drawn.
Victoria grew up traveling the world as an Air Force brat. Today, she lives in Omaha, Nebraska with her husband, a son in college and a daughter working in film.
Victoria had two bearded collies, Sam and Louie (named from characters in one of her books). Sam, the best dog in the world for 13 ½ years, passed away in September 2010. Louie has now taken on the position of loyal companion and is doing a fine job even though he doesn't understand that kitchen counter surfing is not allowed!
They live in a house under constant renovation and the accompanying parade of men in tool belts. And never ending chaos. Victoria laughs a great deal--she has to.
Since the publication of her first book in 1995, she has written twenty-four full length novels and six novellas. The Perfect Wife--originally published in 1996 and reissued in March 2008--hit #1 on the New York Times list. Sixteen of her books are bestsellers hitting the New York Times, USA Today and/or Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. With books translated into a dozen different languages she has readers around the world and has twice been nominated for Romance's Writers of America prestigious RITA award. In 2009 she was given a Career Achievement Award from RT Bookclub and was named Historical Storyteller of the year in 2003. In 2008 she was the keynote speaker for the Romance Writers of American annual conference in San Francisco. Victoria credits much of her writing success to her experiences as a reporter.
Her years as a broadcast journalist were spent in two radically different areas of the country: Nebraska and West Virginia. In West Virginia, she covered both natural and manmade disasters. She was on the scene when a power plant construction accident in a small town left 52 men dead. She once spent the night on a mountain waiting to learn of the fate of coal miners trapped in a mine collapse. Victoria was producing a newscast when her husband (who worked at the same television station) and several other journalists were held hostage by a disturbed Vietnam veteran. In Nebraska, she reported on the farm crisis and watched people lose land that had been in their families for generations. She covered the story that was the basis of the movie BOYS DON'T CRY and once acted as the link between police and a gunman who had barricaded himself in his home. Her investigative work exposed the trucking of New York City garbage to a small town dump in rural Nebraska.
During her journalism career, Victoria covered every president from Ford to Clinton. She knows firsthand what it feels like to be surrounded by rising floodwaters and inside a burning building. She's interviewed movie stars including Kevin Costner, ridden an elephant and flown in a governor's helicopter. She's covered a national political convention and Pope John Paul II's historic visit to Denver as well as small town festivals celebrating everything from walnuts to Glen Miller. Her work was honored by numerous organizations including the Associated Press who called a feature about a firefighter's school "story telling genius". It was the encouragement she needed to turn from news to fiction. She's never looked back.
Victoria is a former president of the Omaha Press Club and in 2009 was named an OPC Face on the Barroom Floor. A caricature portrait of her joined previous faces including presidents, sports figures and politicians in a tradition that began in 1971.
Victoria claims her love of romance and journalism is to due to the influence of her favorite comic book character: Lois Lane, a terrific reporter and a great heroine who pursued Superman with an unwavering determination. And why not? He was extremely well drawn.
Victoria grew up traveling the world as an Air Force brat. Today, she lives in Omaha, Nebraska with her husband, a son in college and a daughter working in film.
Victoria had two bearded collies, Sam and Louie (named from characters in one of her books). Sam, the best dog in the world for 13 ½ years, passed away in September 2010. Louie has now taken on the position of loyal companion and is doing a fine job even though he doesn't understand that kitchen counter surfing is not allowed!
They live in a house under constant renovation and the accompanying parade of men in tool belts. And never ending chaos. Victoria laughs a great deal--she has to.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Emperor's New Clothes,
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This review is from: The Emperor's New Clothes (Faerie Tale Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a delightful little farce in which a desparate lady
grabs her younger sister, climbs down a drain pipe from their hotel, finds tickets to Dead end WY. There's greeted as the visiting Countess the town had been expecting. The Countess' luggage arrived with her and she assumes a new identity. With grandiose plans to swindle her host, a wealthy cattle baron, she runs into all sorts of complications including the host's nephew who sees thru her ploy. When our adventurous and the nephew fall for each other further troubles arise.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting idea that starts with a childs story...,
By Darkcat_ak "darkcat_ak" (Alaska) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Emperor's New Clothes (Faerie Tale Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
In Hans Christian Andersens' classic tale of THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES, two tailors extort large sums of money from a gullible Emperor who is obsessed with fashion. In this fractured fairy tale written by Victoria Alexander our tailors become Ophelia and her younger sister Jenny. Ophelia is tired of living on the run and gambling for her next meal. The only problem is, she's only one step ahead of breaking the law and can't win enough money gambling to be able to settle down.
Which lands her in Dead End, Wyoming sitting on someone else's luggage. So when she is mistaken for the Countess of Bridgewater, maybe she is finally having the break she needs. Posing as the Countess and with a little luck, she should be able to scam the citizens of Dead End (who want to become a respectable community) out of some of their money...enough to set her and Jenny up for the rest of their lives! The citizens of Dead End seek respectability, and are good, decent people. Our hero, Tye has recently returned from completing his education and then traveling abroad. With him, is his classmate, and friend Sedge Montgomery, the second son to a legitimate Earl...who right away knows that "Countess" Ophelia is a fraud. Tye has his suspicions, but can't prove them...so logically the best way to discover the truth is to lure Ophelia into his bed, because everyone knows a woman can't keep a secret from a man. Only things aren't going as planned... I didn't have a problem with the idea of Ophelia gambling but I did have a problem with her trying to scam Jack and Lorelei (Tye's Uncle and Aunt) out of money to buy a title along with property in England not hers' to sell. I had a very sick feeling of impending doom in my stomach reading through this part of the story, and therefore had a very difficult time getting past this part of the tale and into the romance (so basically great first chapter, then had a problem with the rest of the first third of the book). However, reading further allows the reader to find out that Ophelia isn't doing a very good job acting as a Countess and I spent a couple of chapters trying to figure out if Jack knew she was trying to scam him. This made the story more entertaining for me, especially since nothing goes as planned for our heroine. I guess in hindsight, I wasn't sure what to expect. Andersen's version of THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES was never one of my favorite fairy tales. All and all, Ms Alexander's version of THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES is a humorous, well written romantic read. But, as I mentioned, I had a problem with the initial deception and I think this spoiled the story for me. NOTE: This book has just been reissued, and the copy I read was published in 1997.
6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Humorous and touching story.,
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This review is from: The Emperor's New Clothes (Faerie Tale Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is Ms. Alexander's second "Faerie Tale Romance," from Love Spell, her first being The Princess and the Pea. As always, the author delivers a warm, wonderful, entertaining tale. A must read!
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